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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Dispatch

Low-Cost National Media-Based Surveillance System for Public Health Events, Bangladesh

Trong T. Ao, Mahmudur Rahman, Farhana Haque, Apurba Chakraborty, M. Jahangir Hossain, Sabbir Haider, A.S.M. Alamgir, Jeremy Sobel, Stephen P. Luby, and Emily S. GurleyComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (T.T. Ao, J. Sobel, S.P. Luby); Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M. Rahman, F. Haque, A. Chakraborty, S. Haider, A.S.M. Alamgir); icddr,b, Dhaka (F. Haque, A. Chakraborty, M.J. Hossain, S.P. Luby, E.S. Gurley)

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Table 2

Case numbers for media-reported outbreaks, by cause and season, Bangladesh, May 2010–September 2011

Reported etiology No. (%) cases
Pre-monsoon, Mar–May Monsoon, Jun–Sep Post-monsoon, Oct–Nov Winter, Dec–Feb Total
Diarrhea 24 (50) 7 (15) 10 (21) 7 (15) 48 (100)
Anthrax 3 (14) 19 (86) 0 0 22 (100)
Mass psychogenic illness 9 (45) 10 (50) 0 1 (5) 20 (100)
Upper respiratory infection 0 2 (33) 3 (50) 1 (17) 6 (100)
Measles 3 (60) 0 0 2 (40) 5 (100)
Other/unknown
31 (33)
49 (52)
5 (5)
10 (11)
95 (100)
Total 70 (36) 87 (44) 18 (9) 21 (11) 196 (100)

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